Play Toyota Origin Dream Team
Forget the $3,000 prize on offer for the Toyota Origin Dream Team competition, the real thrill of playing Dream Team is competing against your mates and earning bragging rights.
Agonising over your player choices and watching them in real time as they rack up points with tackles and try assists and lead you to ultimate glory against your annoying co-worker who sits across from you – that’s really what it is all about.
If you don’t know much about Dream Team, this is the perfect place to start, the showcase of rugby league! You don’t have to worry about salary caps or running out of trades, all you need to do is pick six State of Origin players. That’s ...

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Five Fascinating Things You Didn’t Know About Famous Car Logos
by Joshua Johnson on 5th October 2011 with 8 Comments
Automobile logos represent some of my favorite emblems. I recently became curious as to the origins of several of these popular icons and came across some incredibly interesting facts!
Join us as we look back at some of the most well known logos around and uncover some of their unbelievable secrets!
The Chevy Bowtie May Have Stolen
This story centers around a man named William Durant, who has a long and crazy history with Chevrolet. In the early 1900s, this guy was all over the automobile industry, buying and selling ...

Toyota Land Cruiser, Japan
Body 4-door SUV sedan, or open back with soft/hard cover
Length 4.95m
Width 1.97m
Height 1.88m
Weight 4,321lb
Maximum Speed on Road 150km/h
Fuel Tank 21gal
The Toyota Land Cruiser has been in production by the Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan since 1951. Although the origins of a light four-wheel drive ‘jeep-like’ vehicle are almost certainly earlier during World War II. Toyota produced a Toyota BJ Jeep for the US military during the Korean War and this seems to be the origin of the Land Cruiser known today.
The name Land Cruiser was coined because of the success of the Land Rover in the UK because Toyota wanted a similar dignified name for their ...

Origins and Principles of Lean Manufacturing
Introduction
The current push towards lean manufacturing originates from the Toyota Production System which is often referred to as Just In Time (JIT) Production. The Toyota Company became successful after World War 2 when Japanese factory owners adopted a number of American production and quality techniques. The manufacturing techniques of Henry Ford and the Statistical Quality Control ideas of Edwards Deming became the foundation of Toyota’s production process.
Unlike the American automotive industry Toyota encouraged employees to be a part of the production process. The company introduced quality circles which was a group of workers who meet ...

A Brief History of Lean
Although there are instances of rigorous process thinking in manufacturing all the way back to the Arsenal in Venice in the 1450s, the first person to truly integrate an entire production process was Henry Ford. At Highland Park, MI, in 1913 he married consistently interchangeable parts with standard work and moving conveyance to create what he called flow production. The public grasped this in the dramatic form of the moving assembly line, but from the standpoint of the manufacturing engineer the breakthroughs actually went much further.
Ford lined up fabrication steps in process sequence wherever possible using special-purpose machines and go/no-go gauges to fabricate ...

The Origin of 5S
5S was developed in Japan. It was first heard of as one of the techniques that enabled what was then termed ‘Just in Time Manufacturing’. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 5-year study into the future of the automobile in the late 1980s identified that the term was inappropriate since the Japanese success was built upon far more than components arriving only at the time of requirement. John Krafcik, a researcher on the project, ascribed Lean to the collective techniques being used in Japanese automobile manufacturing; it reflected the focus on waste in all its forms that was central to the Japanese approach. Minimised inventory was only one aspect ...

Toyota’s Twincams
Toyota built their formidable Twin Cam reputation on these engines. Based on the popular T block and R block of the early 70’s, these engines were the envy of all car manufacturers. These engines evolved- from the early stock ohv and sohc variety to the pure high performance G models, then the smog controlled models, and finally the fuel injected and turbo models. Originally the 2TG (1588cc) started at 115 HP, and the 18RG (1968cc) at 145 HP. Both engines had a twin- the 2TGR and 18RGR which had low compression pistons, but identical cylinder heads. In the mid 70’s both the 2TGU and 18RGU saw a further drop in compression, emission controlled carburetors, ...

Buy car based on needs, not country of origin
Consumer Reports magazine has issued its periodic survey of what it and its readers consider the best cars on the market, and not surprisingly the news is not good for the Detroit-centered manufacturers.
But what should the average car buyer glean from the 2007 report?
You’ve probably already seen the headlines: Cars and trucks made by Japan-based manufacturers took top honors in 10 categories of the magazine’s 20 categories:
The Japanese winners were the Honda Fit (budget car), Toyota Rav4 (small sport utility vehicle), Honda Civic (small sedan), Honda Accord (family sedan), Toyota Highlander Hybrid (midsize SUV), Toyota Prius ...